Talk:Brainship

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The following is mostly copied from Talk:The Ship Who Sang:

Rather than merge this article into The Ship Who Sang, I suggest a change of title to Brains (Ship series) (or something similar) and changing the content to a description of the brains as a whole, not just those who serve as brainships, and their roles in the society of the Ship books. McCaffrey and her various co-writers put plenty of explanatory and background material into the books that could be used here. In fact, I might just volunteer for the task--but I'll have to ask my mom to re-loan me her copies of the books and read the series again, which will take a while, especially since I'm currently entrenched in re-reading the Crystal Singer books. -- Pennyforth 05:38, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

I agreed with Pennyforth. There are a couple of other wiki articles that mention brainships without explanation (Cyborg, Nebulae in fiction, Starfire (board wargame) and others) and I think the concept itself warrants its own page. Unfortunately I do not have the books to research this subject and come up with a thorough definition. However I'm going to be bold, and put down some words as best I can, remove the booklist and simply point to the Ship Who Sang series page (it's called Brain & Brawn Ship series on McCaffrey's website). I've removed the merger suggestion from the page as well, since as it now stands it's no longer a duplicate. (unfortunately my login session expired, but I made those edits.) I'm open to discussion if someone objects. Tkech (talk) 17:17, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

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Another brainship

How about Mayflies by Kevin O'Donnell Jr ? [1]. It's a great book, for one 84.109.65.205 (talk) 10:12, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Sounds great - write it up! I haven't read it personally, but the plot point (brain made into ship computer) is mentioned in a blurb on this website http://www.dondammassa.com/ck_sfo.htm and possibly some others.

I found another site that has a whole list of machine intelligences, classified various ways. http://www.noreascon.org/users/sflovers/u1/ftp/pub/sf-lovers/books/misc/machine-intelligence.txt They are a bit blurry in the ship department - Niven's Peersa imprinted his personality on a computer just to annoy the protagonist, and HAL wasn't based on a human. And of course humans replaced by hardware aren't necessarily in ships. So the only thing that seemed concrete was this one, since it gave a blurb: Herbert, Frank (1920-1986) SY Destination: Void (1966) [human brains run ships] "Machine intelligence created to replace defunct organic brain controlling starship; takes on godlike powers."

I wouldn't feel comfortable writing these up as I haven't read the stories. Please feel free to add whatever you like, I've had difficulty explaining to others that there are brainships outside of McCaffrey's universe. Tkech (talk) 07:08, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure if you're trying for lightspeed on this one but that magician that teleports might be able to help.. the emo guy. I thought the hyperdrive was really like electric protons, inside a box trying to escape to gps point x farther in space.. then they pull the ship in the vaccume of space... because they don't escape the hyperdrive. That resembles a teleport in my opinion because they warp theoretically. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.230.193.101 (talk) 11:19, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

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